"You are a life saver Raven!" Widow complimented.
"Um...let's not mention this to anyone, ok?" Raven picked up Widow's head from the stage floor and set it down on the table next to her headless body on a chair. "You said you keep a sewing pouch in your purse?"
"Yeah, I think my purse is over there." Her body pointed to where she dropped her purse and books by the curtains. With a flick of a wrist, her hand glowed a shade of purple and made the black leather purse float in mid-air. The purse threw itself so Raven can catch it easily. Raven felt oddly uncomfortable helping Widow sewing her head back on, it was certainly something she never thought she would do. When she heard princesses screaming of Widow's head coming off, she immediately went to check it out and saw Widow's body crawling on the floor in search of its head.
Raven searched the contents of her purse and pulled out a box that contained a needle, some thread, and scissors. She carefully thread the needle and placed it in Widow's hand before picking up her head and placing it on her neck. Widow got to work but she had to be carefully when sewing her neck. With no mirror, she couldn't see where she was stabbing the needle. Luckily she no pain came to her while she worked. Raven refused to look at the process, she knew Widow was dead...or...undead at least. But she never has seen anyone sew their heads back on, let alone ever meet someone who would.
It only took a 15 minutes until Widow finished and brushed her fingers over her new stitches. She felt how they were uneven and some were longer than the others. Once Raven let go of her head, it didn't seem like it would fall off at any time. Widow sighed and Raven handed her purse; "Thank you Raven! I owe you big time!"
"No problem."
"So I guess classes ended early." Widow looked around at the empty theater, oddly knowing the other princesses weren't coming back. "That was actually kind of fun for a supposed math class."
"What made you think it was a math class?"
"Well crownculus sounded so much like clawculus so I just figured." Widow shrugged. She and Raven started leaving the theater and into the hallway. "But if every class is going to be like this, then I have to find a way to make my head stay on. I hope you didn't have to leave class to help me."
"Oh no. I was already out from my Chemythstry class, Professor Rumplestiltskin had a little accident when one of the students got a potion wrong."
There was a moment of silence between them but Widow pulled her lips into a smirk and asked; "Was it you?"
"Hmm, maybe." The two girls giggled. They walked back to their lockers to get their hextbooks for their next class. From Widow's schedule, next up was muse-ic class. Now that's a class she could easily do...or at least she hoped it was a music class. In her opinion, a Pumpkin King needs to have a good voice and great music skills; she has been practicing and made a few songs of her own but she figured to finally take a class to improve herself. The bell rung a few minutes later and students were released from their classroom and reunited with their friends again before their final class.
"So you still don't have any idea who could've gave you the ripped page?" Widow whispered to Raven, making sure no other students had heard.
"Not a clue." Raven sighed. "I'm just glad I didn't disappear with my story...but what if I disappear when I graduate from here?"
"Come on Raven, don't think like that."
"Well it's not like I can just ask the Bella sisters if they really disappeared!"
"Hmm, what if you can?" Widow got up, pondering on her idea to scratch her chin.
"What do you mean? She should be dead. We can't talk to her unless she's a ghost."
"Exactly! And where do all the people go when they die? The land of the dead!" Widow threw her arms in the air, being excited about her idea. Raven looked at her as if she lost her head again.
"Land of the dead?"
"I'm surprised I didn't think of it before. I use to work in a bar there during summer vacation, there has to be someone who knows of the Bella sisters. All newcomers arrive in the same place and they throw a big party for them!"
Raven thought about it, it was the only lead they have and it could give them a chance to answer some questions. She sighed and agreed; "It's worth a shot, where is the land of the dead?"
"Oh in a graveyard."
"Hexcellent! Wait...A graveyard?"
"Uh-huh. That's where the entrance is suppose to be. Where is the nearest graveyard from here?"
"Um...I really don't know. I don't think there is one nearby."
"Ok that's our first mission!" Widow clapped. "Find a graveyard!"
"Are you sure you're not more excited about visiting the land of the dead than finding about the Bella sisters?" Raven crossed her arms and gave her a look.
"Well it was one of my homes away from home, corpses are more exciting to be around with." Widow shrugged, making Raven smirk and shake her head, trying as hard as she could to believe her.
"If you say so, I'll spell you later." Raven chuckled before they parted ways to their classes. Widow was oddly getting excited, there's a chance she might go to the land of the dead! Oh how she missed the exciting city that was just as crazy as New Goreleans. She remembered working at The Ball and Socket pub during vacation to earn money for a Scaris trip with her ghoul friends. Every hour they had a new arrival and everyone would get so excited to welcome them, cheering and drinking poison. Music would be playing and Bonejangles would be playing the creepiest songs, he is one of Widow's inspirations for her songs.
Widow swore her fake heart was beating with excitement. She skipped down the halls into her muse-ic class, some students already wandered in and took a seat in front of a music stand. She sat in a seat nearest to the door on the second row and examined the students coming in one by one. She saw Duchess from her General Villany class coming in...more like dancing in, and took a seat in the front row. A few minutes after her, a familiar dark prince came striding in into the classroom with a hoodie pulled over his head and sunglasses, protecting himself from the sun through the windows.
Today kept getting better! A chance to visit the land of the dead and Alexander in two of her classes?! This ghoul can just fall apart and her soul can go to heaven!
"Alexander!" Widow immediately waved at him as he looked up to wave at her.
Wait a minute! It was an accident! Widow got too excited to say hi to him; she did wanted to ask him about earlier but it left her mind when she didn't see him all day. She barely noticed him sitting next to her and removing his sunglasses to see her better.
"Widow?"
She snapped her head at him and grinned; "He-Hey, Alexander. Um...boo!"
He chuckled; "Boo?"
"I mean um, hi. I just meant to say hi. I was thinking about ghosts and...boo just came out of me." Widow shyly looked away.
"It's alright." He smiled. "However, I didn't know you have muse-ic class."
"A Pumpkin King needs to have a good voice you know, though I should say the same thing about you. What brings you here?"
"Well if I am going to be the next Dracula, I have to learn how to seduce girls. I have been told music is one way but I highly doubt that girls would admire Monstallica."
"I know a few ghouls that would." Widow complimented."I-I actually wanted to...to ask you about what happened in General Villany. About you...being the next Dracula."
"What about it?" He asked her.
"I mean...do you want to be Dracula?"
"Well"-
Just as Alexander was about to respond, Professor Piper came in just as soon as the classroom filled up and they had to cease their conversation. Throughout the class, Professor Piper talked about what they would be doing this year and upcoming projects they had to work on. For now, their assignment was to come up with a song that describes their stories. Easy enough!
Class went by quickly and they were released, Alexander and Widow were one of the last ones to leave. They remained rather silent since Widow was still waiting for an answer. Alexander sighed; "At first, I didn't want to be Dracula but then I changed my mind. It's not such a bad title."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I'm actually quite excited." He commented, though Widow almost didn't believe him. There was a smile on his face but it wasn't a real smile in her eyes. She wanted to keep asking questions until she was worried to ask the wrong thing. Her eyes were lured down his arm at the books he was holding and noticed a dark blue hardcover book with splashes of paint on it in his hands. It was his sketchbook! She has never seen his artwork yet.
"Is that your sketchbook?" Alexander looked at what she was pointing to. "May I?" She extended a hand to ask for the book. He gave her the book and being careful as she could, she flipped open the cover to turn the pages. One of the first drawings that she saw was a pencil sketch of Superman, Batman and the Green Lantern. Widow giggled when she recognized who they were. "You like normie superheroes?"
"I used to read the comic books as a kid, they're pretty cool."
"They are rather cool. Which one is your favorite?"
"Batman."
Widow let it sink in for a few seconds before giggling why he would like Batman, Alexander smirked when she caught on. She continued looking through the pages and landed on a rose bush sketch that was painted in watercolor. She remembered when she hovered over him at the fountain where they officially met as he sketched this. The pages soon turned to several sketches of students around Ever After, some from classes and some just relaxing on the grounds. It was amazing in Widow's mind! She knew Alexander was a great artist but this was just horrific! She wondered if Alexander was going to paint them too. She couldn't wait! Suddenly Alexander remembered what he heard earlier and asked her; "By the way, is it true about what happened in Crownculus?"
She stopped turning the pages and her cheeks blushed red when he heard of her embarrassment. She was hoping that it didn't reach his ear."So...you heard what happened?"
Alexander laughed when she hid her face behind the book, trying to hide her face from her humiliating moment.
Chemythstry- Chemistry
Hextbooks-textbooks
Muse-ic-music
Hexcellent-Excellent
Spell-see
New Goreleans-New Orleans
Scaris-Paris
Normie-human
Monstallica-Metallica